Mashrou’ Proletkult is an exhibition and one-day congress. The exhibition is an invitation to every artist to display his or her artwork at AUB the Mashrou’Proletkult AII-Artist-congress offers every artist present at this event the opportunity to deliver a speech on a relevant topic of his or her choosing.

Mashrou’ ProIetkult is not a curated exhibition, but the fruit of collective work carried out in the summer of 2016 by the Mashrou’ Proletkult Working Committee. The Committee comprises art history and architecture students, art professors, and other cultural
workers from and around AUB. For this exhibition and its congress, there is No Curator; No Jury; No Prizes, No Fees involved, and all decisions with regard to it are made collectively by the Mashrou’ Proletkult Working Committee. The name “Proletkult'” is inspired by the revolutionary cultural politics established in Soviet Russia after the 1917 October revolution, with the goal
of encouraging mass participation in the making of a new progressive art and culture. We are bringing this historical
experience into the reality of our flat, gray; and ahistorical contemporaneity in the hope of making a modest contribution towards a more democratic and egalitarian culture.